Head of Quality
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Your Role:
MilliporeSigma’s Stoneham manufacturing site is looking to hire a new Head of Quality for the site. The Stoneham facility is a small manufacturing center dedicated to manufacturing the unique Mobius Breez Microbioreactor. The Head of Quality will be responsible for manufacturing quality for the site and has a broad mandate to continuously work to improve manufacturing quality and work closely with site R&D to implement design improvements for the Breez product line. This role is a good opportunity for a dynamic quality engineer to take on additional responsibility with latitude to lead quality projects associated with a novel, high-performance product for the pharma industry.
The Head of Quality will develop and oversee the site Quality Management System. Specific duties include:
- Ensure quality strategies and processes meet internal and external regulatory requirements, business objectives, and operational needs.
- Drive necessary quality process changes and improvements to achieve quality goals.
- Conduct risk assessments to enhance prevention over correction.
- Determine and monitor quality KPIs for ongoing performance tracking.
- Facilitate strong communication between engineering, production, and quality teams to share nonconformance information and implement improvements.
- Conduct annual management review meetings and coordinate QMS audits.
- Oversee and manage key quality systems processes.
- Investigate, collect, review, and analyze quality-related data.
- Assume ownership of site-level QMS tools and training.
Who You Are
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and four (4) years of experience as a Quality Engineer (or related occupation) utilizing quality systems for a manufacturing facility.
- Demonstrated ability performing risk assessments, process validations, and process mapping
- Demonstrated experience working with the following regulatory guidelines: Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Good Documentation practices (GDP), and 21 CFR part 11
- Demonstrated ability performing supplier quality management in a regulated industry
- Demonstrated ability performing or participating in quality systems
- Demonstrated ability overseeing product batch releases
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Engineering and two (2) years of experience as a Quality Engineer (or related occupation) utilizing quality systems for a manufacturing facility.
- Certifications in Quality Systems Auditing (e.g., ISO 9001) and Quality Management Systems (e.g., ISO 9001:2015).
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